Preceded by Short: Poor Cinderella, a Max Fleischer Color Classic in Cinecolor starring Betty Boop in her only color film. Directed by Dave Fleischer. (1934, 7 mins, 35mm, Print from UCLA Film Archives with permission of Republic Pictures Corp.) "In Mystery of the Wax Museum, a disfigured, maniacal sculptor (Lionel Atwill) resorts to corpse-snatching and murder to achieve his demented artistic aims. On the trail of the fiend is a wise-cracking girl reporter (Glenda Farrell); a beguiling Fay Wray is the near-fatally innocent heroine. Mystery of the Wax Museum was the last feature made in the two-color Technicolor process, the pallette of which lacked a true yellow, giving all the color effects a bluish-green or a pinkish-red element. Art director Anton Grot and director Michael Curtiz turn these color liabilities into assets by keying the real and unreal elements to the process' eeriness: natural scenes like the newspaper room look entirely normal while the sequences in the wax museum have a gruesome blue-green tint. These color elements are wonderfully combined with Grot's German Expressionist sets with their trapezoidal doors, leaning walls, and twisted staircases. Curtiz serves up some truly terrifying moments including Wray's unmasking of the disfigured Atwill and the fire in the wax museum, where the figures themselves melt into a parody of decaying human flesh as they twist and sink into oblivion." Sally Syberg